Transcript - Vigo County School Corporation

Various and Sundry Technology
The ramblings of a Tech Director
Where the Ramblings will go…
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The Network as a Community
Computer Investigations
Web 2.0
Corporation Web Site
Miscellany
The Network is a Community
• Costs
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$256,000/year (direct costs and salaries)
$1,400/instruction day (180 days)
$50/instruction day/building
$.117 per minute/7 hr day/building
What can happen to your community
• Let’s say a teacher is downloading a music file
and it takes 5 minutes and uses 80% of your
network:
– They will have consumed $.50 worth of your network
for personal use which is 1% of your cost for that day
– Productivity goes to near zero for everyone else
– What about that class that needs at least 50% of the
network to do an online activity? They aren’t getting
their money’s worth.
Solution to our community problems
• We will be adding devices to monitor and shape
how the network is used
• We will be analyzing the use and providing
feedback to the schools
• Every computer connected to the network will be
monitored – top users will be highlighted.
Priorities can be assigned to allow network users
more bandwidth (Core 40)
• We are in the cost gathering stage: Here’s a
sample: Cymphonix
New Procedures on Computer
Investigations
• Computer forensics – what we do when there is
due cause to believe that Policy IIBG has been
violated.
• Policy IIBG – inappropriate use and
indiscriminate use have been main problems
• What we have to change – how the investigation is
performed.
• Why? We have to anticipate it being used as court
evidence.
New Procedures on Computer
Investigations, continued
• Three sources of data can be investigated:
– Computers – disk drive
– Email – archive dating back to 10/2007
– Telephones – “new” system now logs calls
New Procedures on Computer
Investigations, continued
• If a problem is suspected with a staff member, the HR Director should
be contacted
• If a problem is suspected with a student, the Director of Student
Services should be contacted
• The building administrator must prevent anyone from tampering with
the computer. This is critical to preserve the evidence and insure it has
not been modified. The first line of defense is to dismiss electronic
evidence due to any perceived tampering
• The Technology Director will come onsite to confiscate the computer.
This can be done discreetly if the investigation is sensitive in nature
• The Tech director will pull the power plug to preserve the data. An
exact copy of the disk drive will be made and the computer will be put
back into service as soon as possible
• The investigation will continue in the IT Department using the original
drive
Web 2.0 – Do you know the way?
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What is it?
How does it work?
How does it affect our kids?
What is our responsibility?
What if they impersonate you?
Web 2.0 – Do you know the way?
What is it?
• It’s not a specific thing, it’s the way the Internet is
used
• Web 1.0 is basically flat, presenting information as
printed material
• Web 2.0 is interactive providing the following
ways to communicate:
– Blogs – online journals
– Wikis – collaborative information repositories
– Chat – interactively typed online conversations (IM and
chat rooms)
– Podcasts – online videos
– Forums – interactive posts based on a topic
Web 2.0 – Do you know the way?
How does it work?
• Logon and tell the world who you are:
– Blog, video, music, collect “friends”,
communicate, it’s all about freely expressing
oneself
• MySpace:
– Originally a site for musicians to create a Space
to promote themselves: Celtic Thunder
– Now a social network: A Friend's Daughter
Web 2.0 – Do you know the way?
How does it affect our kids?
• Some use poor judgment:
– Impersonate others to be cute
– Put controversial information or photos online
• For others, it’s a popularity contest:
– Quantity vs. quality: friends
• Creates an opportunity for online predators
• For some, it is a healthy form of selfexpression
Web 2.0 – Do you know the way?
What is our responsibility?
• Katie's Story – courtesy of Web Wise Kids
• The signs to look for:
– Victims are “looking for love” because they are not
receiving it through their support network or are going
through a tough transition period in their life.
– Withdrawing socially
– Receiving nice gifts on a regular basis
– Spending a large amount of time online: do they
minimize screens or turn off the monitor to prevent an
adult from viewing?
Web 2.0 – Do you know the way?
What if they impersonate you?
• Get the specific URL of the page
• Send an email with the URL in the email and
request that the page be removed and explain that
a student is falsely impersonating you. Include
your name and title. You must use your VCSC
email account
• MySpace: [email protected]
• MySpace guide
Corporation Web Site
We’re finally catching up
Miscellany
• Technology purchasing
• Moodle – online assessments
This ‘n That
Tech Updates
Telephone System
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911 fix
Online directory
Adobe version of directory
Voicemail instructions
Conference Bridge
School Group VM for night attendant
Training – submit online request
Call rollover?
Online resources: Tech Director’s page
Gmail
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Pull down menu
Archive
Conversations and working with individual messages
Spam “folder”
Chats
Stars
Search
Labels
Filters
Gmail, continued
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District Calendar
Documents
Start Page
Resource pages
Other miscellaneous
• Technology purchasing: email Phyl
[email protected] or call at 11900
Thanks!
Q&A